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California offers privacy policies and do not track disclosures guide
""I applaud the California Attorney General's publication of best practices for communicating with citizens about privacy. Their common-sense reco…
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USA Freedom Act: Oh, Well. Whatever. Nevermind.
Over at Just Security, I have a post about the latest iteration of the USA Freedom Act. Basically, civil liberties groups are withdrawing support for the bill b…
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Lavabit’s Owner Goes Public: His Legal Ordeal Makes For Bad Law
Over at Just Security, I have a post about Ladar Levinson's legal tribulations connected to DOJ's efforts to get his service's encryption key. I arg…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…
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Cellphone data spying: It's not just the NSA
""When this technology disseminates down to local government and local police, there are not the same accountability mechanisms in place. You can see…
Google Can’t Forget You, But It Should Make You Hard to Find
Cross-posted from Wired. Co-authored with Evan Selinger. As soon as news spread that the European Court of Justice now requires search engines like Google to…
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What you really agree to when you click 'accept'
"Aleecia McDonald is the director of privacy at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. She notes that "such as" opens the…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt proposes democratic action in response to our government’s secret infrastructure for monitoring and controlling modern communications. “Citizens,” he…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt calls for alternatives to framing surveillance issues in terms of privacy versus security, but the hard fact is that we cannot avoid tradeoffs. We ha…
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Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked
"“We cannot even conceive of the ways our data is collected and then used to manipulate us at our weakest moments,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor a…
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Comments from the Hoover Institution Event on Intelligence Challenges
Yesterday I attended a conference at the Hoover Institution on “Intelligence Challenges.” I also spoke on a panel in the morning about Civil Liberties. A versio…
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Study says 70% of students have sexted, so how do they feel about revenge porn?
"“For [college students] this is part of contemporary sexual expression and relationships,” says Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland…